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Sleepwalk hands Claude Code sessions to the cloud when your Mac lid closes

What to do

Install the free MIT-licensed plugin if you want sessions to continue while the laptop sleeps.

Why

Handoffs take 5 to 7 seconds in each direction, according to the author's measurements.

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What the research found

Sleepwalk is a free MIT-licensed macOS Claude Code plugin that pushes a running local session to a cloud branch when the lid closes and teleports it back on open, with measured 5 to 7 second handoffs.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. Sleepwalk is free, MIT licensed and macOS only 98%
  2. Lid close to cloud session running took 5 and 7 seconds in measured round trips 99%
  3. Sleepwalk installs via /plugin marketplace add swperb/sleepwalk 98%
  4. Cloud agent gets a summary brief, not the full local conversation 99%

Evidence

Actionability rated medium.